Coachella's 'Guantanamo' Party Draws Jeers

posted by By Matt Cantor, Newser Staff
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3 years ago

(NEWSER) – This year's Coachella music festival was set to feature a Guantanamo-themed party, complete with "pleasurable torture," according to an invitation revealed atRefinery29. Media sites and the Twitterverse immediately piled scorn on the idea, and a sponsor, Smashbox Studios, has now pulled out, the Daily Intelligencer reports. An announcement for "New Guantanamo" called it a "unique and painfully pleasurable pop-up experience."